English

Rembrandt wearing a wideawake

Alternative forms

• wide-awake

Noun

wideawake ‎(plural wideawakes)

1. (historical) A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
   • 1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884).

     "He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train rolled up."

   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories"

     Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake […]

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